Folding gate



-(N'o'modlly E. PIOKETT.

FOLDING GATE.

Patented Nov. 14, 1893.

UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD PIGKETT, or GARLAND, KANSAS.

FOLDING GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,750, dated November14, 1893. Application filed April 22, 1893. Serial No. 471527. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD PIOKETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Garland, in the county of Bourbon and State of Kanr sas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which thefollowing is a specification. i

This invention relates to gates, and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed. 7 v V In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front view of thegate. Fig. 2 is a section, taken on the line 00 w in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the gate, from above.

A and A are the two gate posts. The post A has brackets a secured to itfor supporting the gate at one end. One end of the gate is connected tothe brackets a, and the other end of the gate, when closed, is connectedto the post A by any approved form of catch or fastening, such as thehook a.

When the gate is intended to be used merely as a folding gate, one endof it is secured to the brackets a, but if desired its end may bepivoted to the brackets 17. in any approved manner, so that it may beopened and shut by turning it on its pivots as well as by folding itback.

B is the vertical end bar of the gate which is pivoted in thebrackets'a. B is the simi-.

lar vertical bar at the other end of the gate.

0 are vertical intermediate bars. D D are crossed bars pivoted on theupper and lower ends of each of the bars 0.

E E are bars pivoted on the upper and lower ends of the bars B B. Themeeting ends of the bars D D between the bars 0, and the bars E E, arepivoted on the vertical bars F, each bar F connecting a bar D or E witha bar D or E at the top and at the bottom of the gate.

G are vertical bars secured to the horizontal bars D and E between thebars B B and C, and the bars F so as to prevent animals from passingbetween the said bars B B and C When the gate is closed.

Each bar B B and O has a block H on itslines 10' in Fig. 1.

What I claim is In a gate, the combination, with the vertical end bars BB, and the intermediate vertical bars G; of the pairs of crossedhorizontal bars pivoted on the upper and lower ends of the said verticalbars, the vertical bars F pivotally connecting the ends of the saidhorizontal bars, the blocks on the upper ends of the bars B, B and O,and the inclined bars I having their lower ends pivoted to the saidblocks and having their upper ends pivotally connected together inpairs, substantially as shown and described. 7

Witness my hand and seal this 17th day of January, A. D. 1893.

EDWARD PICKETT. [n s.]

Witnesses:

' GEO. FLEENER, WM. LEONARD.

